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the tech giant google has been fined a record £3.9 billion by the european commission, in relation to its android mobile operating system. the european commission says google unlawfully favoured its own internet search service, denying rivals the chance to compete and consumers the right to choose. google says it will appeal, as our technology correspondent rory cellanjones explains. if you believe in innovation from everyone, then welcome to android. it sees itself as a benevolent giant that just wants to help us communicate. the eu has a different view. google has engaged in illegal practices to cement its dominant market position in internet search. google‘s android operating system runs on three quarters of europe's mobile phones. it is free for phone makers, but the eu says that google applies conditions which promote its own interests at the expense of rivals. there are three complaints — that phone makers must preinstall google search in cut if they want to use the app store.
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they are paid to promote google search by installing it and not other search engines. and that they are effectively banned from creating alternative versions of android. as a matter of principle we could ourselves look up another search engine, but only 1% of us who has a android phone says, "oh, i do something else." 99%, if the search is on your phone, this is what you use. the fact that google has so much control over what happens on so many phones not only gives it a lot of power, it gives it a lot of money, because it collect vast amounts of data that enables it to target advertising. the company says that ends up with a great deal for phone users. google must now pay a record fine and change its ways within 90 days if it is not to face bigger penalties. but it is appealing against the ruling. a spokesperson said, "android has created more choice for everyone, not less. a vibrant ecosystem, rapid innovation and lower prices are classic hallmarks
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of robust competition." with the us and europe already locking horns over trade, the google ruling provides another source of conflict. i don't think trade negotiations are going to be helped by this measure. the biggest losers, however, are going to be european users of smartphones and consumers, because google has already hinted at the prospect of changing its practices, maybe charging for some services it didn't charge for before. google and other american tech giants insist they are good for consumers. but the eu is determined to curb what it sees as their abuse of their dominance. rory cellan—jones, bbc news. let's catch up on all the weather details. good evening, another day and another sunset, this one containing quite a lot of cloud for oui’ containing quite a lot of cloud for our weather watcher in devon. some large areas of cloud around today
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but that cloud will continue to melt away as we go through the night. clear and starry skies overhead, one or two frost patches developing here and there. quite a range of temperatures, eight or nine degrees in scotland in the countryside, towns and cities holding up at 15 or 16 degrees. into tomorrow, any early mist pack is clearing quite quickly, then lots of fine weather. a small chance for a shower in eastern scotland, north—east england, and thicker cloud bringing outbreaks of rain to the far north west of scotla nd rain to the far north west of scotland by the very end of the day. temperatures up to around 21 degrees in aberdeen and edinburgh and all the way down to 29 in the south—east. thursday into friday this frontal system will move its way in from the north—west. a bit of a change because this will bring some of us some much—needed rain, moving across scotland and northern ireland. some pretty heavy bursts for a time but as the wet weather since its way into england and wales during friday it will tend to peter out and large parts of the south
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will stay dry all day long. pretty warm in the south as well. cooler where we get more cloud further north. if we are looking for more rain in the south—east of england, there is the chance for some hit and miss thunderstorms moving up from the south during friday evening. but many places will fall between the gaps and stay dry. if you do get one of these thunderstorms, it could bring a lot of rain in a short space of time. a frontal system with the rain and showers will edge away into the near continent on saturday, high—pressure reasserting itself. so saturday and other largely fine day. a few showers in the south, then some spells of sunshine. areas of patchy cloud floating around as well and temperatures between 19 and 25 degrees. a little bit down on where they would have been on friday but that will not last. sunday would see those temperatures bouncing up again. the best of the sunshine likely to be found across southern and south—western parts of the country. a bit more cloud further north and west but noticed those temperatures starting to bounce back
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upwards. to some things up this weekend, a lot of dry weather around, some spells of sunshine with just a little rain at times. hello, this is bbc news with carole walker. we will be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first the headlines: sir cliff richard has called for people to have the right to anonymity until they are charged, after winning a high court case against the bbc. former foreign secretary borisjohnson has criticised the prime minister's brexit plans, describing the government's proposals for future relations with the eu as miserable. donald trump has defended his record in dealing with russia, saying no us president has ever been tougher. and up to 50,000 ryanair passengers could face cancellations and disruption next week as cabin crew walk out in two days of strikes. hello and welcome to our look ahead
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to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are broadcaster david davies and talkradio presenter daisy mcandrew. welcome. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the tabloids all lead with the same story. the daily star reports on sir cliff richard winning his privacy case against the bbc. the mirror questions whether the landmark case is good forjustice, fearing that not naming suspects may protect the guilty in the future. in agreement is the sun, saying the ruling threatens to gag free speech. however, the daily mail questions what the ruling means for the bbc, saying bbc heads must roll. the guardian also features a picture of sir cliff, but leads on brexit and boris johnson's resignation speech.
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following with the same story is the metro, as boris tells theresa may it is her last chance to save brexit. in the times, mrs may responds by announcing she will tour britain this summer in a bid to get sceptical tories behind her brexit plans. however, the focus of the page is a photo of the youngest member of the 12 boys trapped in the thai caves. the boys spoke publicly for the first time at a press conference in chiang rai. that's it for the papers tonight. well, those are the front pages, and
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two or three big stories here. but let's start with boris johnson's brexit plan in the guardian, one of the many papers to go for it. absolutely, and the guardian says johnson attacks its miserable brexit plan, but for me, the interesting thing in this story is borisjohnson is, according to the guardian, lashing out at fellow brexiteers, including his old rival michael gove, who stayed inside the cabinet believing they can fight the changes to the deal later on. borisjohnson thinks this is taking imagination too far. 0ne thinks this is taking imagination too far. one has to ask the question, and i don't think enough people, perhaps you have the answer to this, boris... it got across that borisjohnson had to this, boris... it got across that
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boris johnson had agreed to this, boris... it got across that borisjohnson had agreed to the chequers deal, and he didn't come out the cabinet until after my na m esa ke out the cabinet until after my namesake came out. so out the cabinet until after my namesake came out. so it wasn't so obvious that he should come out. there was a big criticism of the timing of his resignation, that he had only done it because david davis had only done it because david davis had jumped first and he thought we can't let david davis have all the coverage, so can't let david davis have all the coverage, so he jumped can't let david davis have all the coverage, so hejumped as can't let david davis have all the coverage, so he jumped as well. can't let david davis have all the coverage, so hejumped as well. who knows whether it really was that. this was his chance to put himself forward with lots of statesmanlike phrases, putting the boot into theresa may, not calling for a vote of no confidence or for her resignation but presenting himself as the respectable face of the opposition from the backbenches, and he will certainly milk it. the chamber was pretty empty, he was surrounded by his kabbalah supporters, he chose to sit in the very spot where a previous famous putting the boot in, the dead sheep
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speech, which was a lot more effective than the speech will be, because there were so many other quarrels and fights going on that there were too many to keep your eye on boris. this one not quite in the same league. i see that jacob rees—mogg has said he gave a statesmanlike speech and he spends a lot of time putting his hands in his pocket because he has decided this is what a statesman looks like. for me, it was quite extraordinary that he didn't make his mind up on brexit at all. do you remember, the day before, that sunday afternoon, he suddenly came out of his house and saidi suddenly came out of his house and said i am against it, and 48 hours before, david cameron thought he would be for it. that is what we are talking about. and the michael gove, borisjohnson talking about. and the michael gove, boris johnson shenanigans over the leadership... i think when there is such a paucity of people who look like they could lead, i am not sure
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anybody could lead at the unity at the moment, but there isn't much of a pool of talent. he is still one of the big beasts, no matter what you think of his talents or lack thereof. and this is clearly putting down a markerfor the thereof. and this is clearly putting down a marker for the future. he didn't challenge her for the leadership at this stage. there are some people who think... there may not be any such thing as a marker for the past, but has his moment on? i probably would have agreed with you a week ago, but the last week has been so extraordinary in the commons, and not just has been so extraordinary in the commons, and notjust the tory party ripping itself to shreds, what we are told that there was a reasonably good meeting with theresa may and the 1922 committee tonight in which some of them retracted the letters and said they had made a mistake and they want her to stay. i think the brexit vote earlier this week were on such a knife edge, and they will
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have put the frighteners up. many mps are now thinking are we really going to get a general election, am i going to face re—election and lose my seat? that focuses the mind. does anybody seriously believe that boris johnson could unite the conservative party? | johnson could unite the conservative party? i am not sure that anyone thinks that anyone could unite the party at the moment, but daisy mentioned the general election. that could be why the times is reporting theresa may will go out and woo grassroots tories over the brexit deal. didn't she have the chairman of the constituency parties to number ten last week? i thought that was wooing them as well. going on a tourin was wooing them as well. going on a tour in the middle of the hottest summer tour in the middle of the hottest summer since 1976, or whatever it is. how welcome is she going to be? but you are right, this pledge of loyalty, it seems to have gone rather well at the 1922 committee
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tonight. i haven't changed my view that so many tories are being faced increasingly with this prospect of yet another general election, and she is the least worst option. and there have been some quite interesting details that have been coming out today about the way that vote went down, and it went down to three, incredibly tight, and the whips on all sides were taken aback by it. and one story has been running today, and i think it is significant, aboutjoe swinson, the pregnant libdem mp who was paired with the chairman of the party. —— jo. we should add that caring is if one mp can't make it, in her case because she is pregnant, then either vote and it cancels out —— pairing. she had a pairing agreement with him, he managed to stick to the agreement on all the votes apart from the one important one, in which
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he went back on it. she took to twitter saying it was outrageous, he took the twitter saying it was an honest mistake, which nobody believes. and many people believe that if you look at his constituency, ukip have had a real resurrection in his constituency, and that is why he voted as he did. it isa and that is why he voted as he did. it is a big accusation, but i think it tells us something about what is going on in the commons that gentleman's agreements are out of the window, and everybody is looking to their own future and their own situation. and ukip have had their best week for many a year. for at least two years, extraordinary. they have been tearing themselves apart for years. the other big story today on the front page of the mail, tearful cleef. bbc heads must roll. the daily mail is on both sides of the argument. the bbc acted idiotically
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but on the other hand... i mean, cleef calling for heads to roll. —— cliff. to me it is reigniting this debate in the digital age about on the one hand your right to river sea and on the other the freedom of the press. —— privacy. is this putting power into the hands of the police and it will be interesting to see, you have unusual alliances with the guardian and the sun coming together to worry about the freedom of the press. i think this front page absolutely shows us the split
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loyalties. you can understand why the bbc has been humiliated in the course and newspapers will want to revel in it, no surprises there but when they have the heads roll rather than their heart, they are worried about this ruling because of this will curtail what the press want to do. a lot of arguments against the ruling is that this will give police are infected control and will not be able to be scrutinised by the press. ado able to be scrutinised by the press. a do not think that is fair or accurate. if you have not been arrested, you are being investigated, it is in the public interest to name and shame that person and the fork the police can do whatever they want if they cannot
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name them in the press. the ruling threatens to jack free—speech according to the sun. the problem for the media is attacking sir cliff is rather like attacking apple pie, dare i say it. sir cliff richard said he built up a reputation for over 60 years and it was destroyed in an afternoon and he still believes that, i am sure. the mail frontpage or it talks about bbc heads must roll, and other front pages were sir cliff has not felt he could be near young people or make children because of the assumptions people might make on how upsetting that may be. when at wimbledon he used to use a toilet near the ball boys changer and felt he could not
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go there. real heartbreaking stuff and you get an understanding on how this impinges on every aspect of your life. when you believe in the freedom of the press, we have to have a better answer for people like cliff richard than we do and to someone cliff richard than we do and to someone like me, anyway, that is the lesson in this. let's have a look at another interesting story, the anti—semitism row within the labour party and margaret hodge, a senior labourmp, hasa party and margaret hodge, a senior labour mp, has a piece for the guardian explaining why she was right about speaking out, and tackle jeremy corbyn in person. with all without an expletive, depending on who you believe. she has expanded on what happened with an article in the guardian. i confronted jeremy corbyn and told him to his face what i and
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many others are feeling. under his leadership the labour party is perceived by a lot ofjews and many members of the public as an anti—semitic party. it is hard stuff. tough stuff. my own instinct is that the labour party was the traditional home ofjewish voters and a lot of the research that has been done over the use, certainly when i go back to my university days, i can remember that thejewish community voted insignificant numbers for the labour party and we have this, margaret hodge talking about losing family members to the nazis in the gas chambers and she is a very, very —— has written a very
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damning article. she could face disciplinary action over this. which is outrageous. it was reported that she called jeremy corbyn and f—word anti—semite and she said she did not use the f—word but did call in anti—semite which was very funny. she disrespected fellow parliamentarian and she will be facing disciplinary action which is not what anybody in the labour party wants to see. it has raised a lot of question. the labour ruling body has decided to water down the definition ofanti— anti—semitism, decided to water down the definition of anti— anti—semitism, gives by local authorities, by of anti— anti—semitism, gives by localauthorities, by the of anti— anti—semitism, gives by local authorities, by the cps, by many people across the world. now jeremy corbyn's spokesman and
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director is very much part of the watering down and the rat accusations that one of the reasons they are desperate to water it down is because he has written himself in the past and it would not get above the past and it would not get above the threshold. —— there are accusations. if you want a reminder of how strongly the feelings are running in the jewish of how strongly the feelings are running in thejewish immunity, the front page of the jewish running in thejewish immunity, the front page of thejewish chronicle reprinting margaret hodge's words. he is not merely presided over the pa rty‘s refusal to tackle anti—semitism but he has been responsible or it. and also an interesting comments in one of the papers from david miliband, the former foreign secretary, which says it is the leadership that has brought the party into disrepute, not margaret hodge. this could run
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and run and it is very difficult to see how you turn these round now that it has received this level of momentum. and potentially very damaging forjeremy corbyn. very damaging. and hats off to the jewish chronicle. the editor has been pushing the story when the labour party was saying can we just move oi'i. party was saying can we just move on. he refused to move on and other members now saying this is leading to civil war within the labour party. lots of other comments and observations of labour mps attacking each other within the chamber and corridors. i do not see howjeremy corbyn has made such a mess of this. you should be sitting back and enjoying the turmoil on the other side of the chamber. on the times and frontpage, we tried to dig our
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way out of the caves, said the 12 boys from the football team who were trapped in those underground tunnels. a picture of one of them there. an extraordinary news conference we saw today. in recent weeks, i have been lack enough to be in russia and to watch foreign news channels who fight rightly loved the story and the happy ending —— lucky enough. these boys were trapped with their coach underground with water is rising around them. they told the story... what i love today was that dignity with which the young boys told the story. how they were trying told the story. how they were trying to claw their way out and the water was coming up and you can imagine
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the sheer horror and you wonder how mentally they had the strength to come through it. one of the things i was so come through it. one of the things i was so glad about, the football coach who took them in stock at the beginning i thought he will be so heavily criticise. the way he managed to keep their spirits up, keep them alive, drinking water from the top of the cave, i guess at least it gave them something to do and concentrate on so that was also impressive. they all looked well. it looked as though they have had a few good meals since finally getting out. and food seem to be a big preoccupation for the young lads and who could blame them. thank you very much indeed forjoining us this evening. don't forget you can see the front pages of all the papers on
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line on the bbc webpage. you can watch the programme late on bbc iplayer. thank you to my guests and goodbye. it will not come as any surprise if i tell you that we have more sunshine in the forecast over the next few days but there is some rain in the forecast and some of it can be quite useful. a dry day for most of us. fabulous sunsets, some taken by our weather watchers. most of the country will be dry. a little bit of this developing in places. towns and cities warm and make it to start
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with. more sunshine tomorrow. a little bit warmer. but this is a sign of change. more cloud outbreaks. increasing breeze to the far north—west corner. temperatures reaching up 20s. this weather front will continue to advance south east across the country on friday. what a different day, in fact. scotland and northern areas cooler. this is where the front moves into central parts of the country, weakening with some patchy rain on it by the time we reach the end of the day. another warmer and ahead of it. that is just the chance into the evening time and the chance into the evening time and the first part of the night of a few thundery downpours moving up from the near continent to areas of
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england. a lot of rain falling in a short space of time. into saturday morning, high—pressure shows it will bring a lot of fine weather for the weekend with a few subtle differences. more cloud across the south. sunny spells and patchy cloud further north. 25 — 26 across the south—east. more sunshine about on sunday. further north, more of a breeze and cloud and maybe some spots of rain across western scotla nd spots of rain across western scotland but a warmer field two things. the weekend is a bit mixed. some spells very warm sunshine around but also patches of cloud and around but also patches of cloud and a little bit of rain. good night. welcome to newsday.
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i'm mariko 0i in singapore. the headlines: the thai cave boys finally go home after telling the world's media what it felt like to be rescued. translation: we heard a noise, we we re translation: we heard a noise, we were afraid that they would walk past us. it was a miracle, i was shocked. trump's troubles, now the us president says vladimir putin was responsible for meddling in the us election. well, iwould, because he's in charge of the country, just like i consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country. so certainly, as the leader of the country, you would have to hold him responsible, yes.
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